f-104 sps mendez nunez f100 class guided missile frigate spanish navy

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Spanish Navy / Armada Espanola - Guided Missile Frigate
F 104 SPS Mendez Nunez
 

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Type, class: Guided Missile Frigate; Alvaro de Bazan (F100) class
Builder: Izar shipbuilding, Ferrol, Spain
 
STATUS:
Awarded: January 31, 1997
Laid down: May 16, 2003
Launched: November 12, 2004
Commissioned: March 21, 2006
IN SERVICE
 
Homeport:
Namesake: Casto Secundino María Méndez Núñez (1824-1869)
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Technical Data: see INFO > Alvaro de Bazan (F100) class Guided Missile Frigate
 
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Casto Secundino María Méndez Núñez (July 1, 1824 - August 21, 1869)

... was a Spanish military naval officer. Born in Vigo (Galicia). In 1866 during the Chincha Islands War between Spain, Peru and Chile, he was General Commander of the Spanish fleet in the Pacific. As such, he bombarded and destroyed the port of Valparaiso, and fought the Battle of Callao (during which he was injured nine times.) Méndez Núñez was the first man to circumnavigate the world on an ironclad warship: "Enloricata navis quae primo terram circuivit".

When Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, the American Minister to Chile, learned that Commodore Méndez Núñez was to bombard the port of Valparaiso, he asked the American naval commander Commodore John Rodgers to attack the Spanish fleet. Méndez Núñez famously responded with, "I will be forced to sink [the US ships], because even if I have one ship left I will proceed with the bombardment. Spain, the Queen and I prefer honor without ships than ships without honor." (España prefiere honra sin barcos a barcos sin honra.)

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